What program is good at extremely high poly renders, free?

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 05 Nov 2006, 02:49

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Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 05 Nov 2006, 05:58

Try blender, if you're a masochist.

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 05 Nov 2006, 08:01

Honestly, none.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 05 Nov 2006, 08:08

Blender. Masochists prefer Milkshape.

MachineMinded · Post by **MachineMinded** » 05 Nov 2006, 09:21

If you're looking for rendering software take a look at the following:

* http://www.indigorenderer.com Unbiased renderer, slow at its current form, but gives out physically correct result. No GUI. Freeware.
* http://www.yafray.org Quite versatile rendering software. GPLed.
* http://www.povray.org

Blender internal renderer is quite fast and supports all sorts of fun stuff through the node editor. There's an export script for Blender to all the renderers mentioned above. Happy rendering.

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Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 05 Nov 2006, 12:39

yafrt (Yet Another Free Ray Tracer) can be used as a plugin for wings3d

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 05 Nov 2006, 17:22

I thought Yet Another Free Raytracer was abbreviated Yafray?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 05 Nov 2006, 17:30

Yafray, Yafrt, both are used.

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 05 Nov 2006, 21:48

Things are ALWAYS Free.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 09 Nov 2006, 04:17

YafRay is giving interesting results, though I have only touched the tip of it...

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 09 Nov 2006, 04:27

Tip from the people-whos-computers-are-on-strike-from-yafrays-last-assault: Don't try caustics in yafray for quite a bit.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 09 Nov 2006, 04:30

I have tested with those, A: Extremely hard to control, I remember those and 5000 photons... Ow...

B: Makes it look better, or much worse... for me its always the latter...

Edit: Damnit, I am going uv that building so I can try and render with it...

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 09 Nov 2006, 18:46

Snipawolf wrote:YafRay is giving interesting results, though I have only touched the tip of it...

I can make a render like that with Blender's internal renderer and no raytracing.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 09 Nov 2006, 22:31

Like I said, I've only touched the tip of it...

Not to mention, it pwns Wings3ds internal renderer...

Edit: I didn't even have raytracing enabled...

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:28

Yes, you did by mere fact of the shadows.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:38

Shadowmaps maybe? *gasp*

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:41

Pfff, no way in hell that is known as ray tracing... Dynamic Lighting maybe..

If that was raytracing.. Then why is it called "YafRay" when both Blender and Wings3D can both render with "Raytracing (Shadows)" already?

And, that also brings KDR down..

Going by that logic, then he couldn't make a render like that without Ray Tracing, anyways...

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:55

Those are not shadowmaps, they are likely stencil-type shadows. Mathematically, those are a stripped down version of raytracing. Yafray one-ups the other raytracers in other programs by doing photons. Basically, if you don't use photons its probably faster to use the Blender builtin one.

(Wings/Blender use viewer->environment, yafray uses that+light->viewer in special cases)

maestro · Post by **maestro** » 11 Nov 2006, 02:59

the real answer is NONE...
even expensives such 3D MAX will still crash times to times when u got overcomplexes scene....

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 11 Nov 2006, 09:44

That doesn't mean much, 3ds MAX crashes even when you don't have an overcomplicated scene.

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What program is good at extremely high poly renders, free?

What program is good at extremely high poly renders, free?